English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners. With an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy ... |
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... distinguished by the name of liquids , from their readily uniting with other consonants , and flowing as it were into their sounds . We have shown above , that it is essential to the nature of a consonant , that it cannot be fully ...
... distinguished by the name of liquids , from their readily uniting with other consonants , and flowing as it were into their sounds . We have shown above , that it is essential to the nature of a consonant , that it cannot be fully ...
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... distinguished in the pro- nunciation , it has exactly the same sound as u would have in the same situation ; as , draw , crew , view , now , sawyer , vowel , outlaw . X has three sounds , viz . X. ORTHOGRAPHY . 31 It is sounded like z ...
... distinguished in the pro- nunciation , it has exactly the same sound as u would have in the same situation ; as , draw , crew , view , now , sawyer , vowel , outlaw . X has three sounds , viz . X. ORTHOGRAPHY . 31 It is sounded like z ...
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... distinguished by its taking an article before it , or by its making sense of itself : as , a book , the sun , an apple ; temperance , indus- try , chastity . 3. An Adjective is a word added to a sub- stantive , to express its quality ...
... distinguished by its taking an article before it , or by its making sense of itself : as , a book , the sun , an apple ; temperance , indus- try , chastity . 3. An Adjective is a word added to a sub- stantive , to express its quality ...
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... distinguished according to the various modes of forming the plural of substan- tives , with at least half a dozen cases to each declension , would furnish a complete arrangement of English nouns in all their trappings . See on this ...
... distinguished according to the various modes of forming the plural of substan- tives , with at least half a dozen cases to each declension , would furnish a complete arrangement of English nouns in all their trappings . See on this ...
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... distinguished by some writers into the following kinds . 1st . Active - Transitive , or those which denote an action that passed from the agent to some object ; as , Cæsar conquered Pompey . 2d . Active - Intransitive , or those which ...
... distinguished by some writers into the following kinds . 1st . Active - Transitive , or those which denote an action that passed from the agent to some object ; as , Cæsar conquered Pompey . 2d . Active - Intransitive , or those which ...
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accent according to RULE active verb adjective adjective pronoun admit adverb agreeable Amphibrach appear auxiliary better cæsura comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction copulative denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis emphasis English language examples express following sentence frequently future tense genitive give governed Grammar grammarians hath ideas imperative mood imperfect tense improper improperly indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative kind king learner Lord manner means mind nature nominative noun object observations occasions participle pause perfect personal pronoun perspicuity phrase pleasure Pluperfect Tense plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principal proper properly propriety relative pronoun render respect sense sentiments short signified simple singular number sometimes sound speak speech stantive subjunctive mood syllable tence termination thing third person singular thou tion tive Trochee verb active verse virtue voice vowel wise words writing
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Page 178 - God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Page 336 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 327 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 135 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 302 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 321 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.
Page 303 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 330 - But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 321 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 318 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.